Cases in which women or children have been forced into prostitution under the violent control of a third party are often described as the tip of a very large iceberg. One of the principal statistical claims…

‘Susan’, a trafficked sex worker - one of a minority, research has suggested.
Manchester Evening News/PA Wire19 décembre 2013

The moral panic on the supposed prevalence of trafficking in the global sex industry rests on a lie: that the majority of sex workers are trafficked. In fact, the opposite is true. However, on the basis…